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Monday, August 8th, 2022 - The Gullibility of Students
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It's been a few days since I've made an entry. To be honest I'm
running out of steam a bit, I've never been much of one to keep a
journal and that is essentially what this phlog has become. That
being said, I'm between therapists right now so this little medium
has become my only outlet. So I'm going to continue trying to
stick with it.
I've noticed something about students in the tech field. Well, I've
noticed a few things. Firstly, there is a massive draught of talent
right now. Nobody is creating, everybody is iterating, regurgitating
the same comp sci BS that has them less knowledgeable than your
average enthusiast was in the 90s.
Secondly, and this is probably true of all students in every field,
most of these people are extremely gullible. They will happily latch
on to whatever tryhard fad "sticks it to boomers" with zero
understanding as to why we were doing it a certain way all these
years to begin with.
Most recently it was an argument about Syntax Highlighting in code
editors. There was a group of students claiming that highlighting
was "bloat" because of some throwaway comment Rob Pike made years
ago. And the only reason they're latching on to this is because it
pisses off older programmers who have an established workflow.
The argument became impossible to bear. Nobody was making salient
points, it was literally because "someone said so one time in this
one book". And they're perfectly willing to base 100% of their
personality on this contrarian bullshit.
